Adam Lambert Goes for Heterosexual Shock in New Details

 

Adam Lambert's November Details cover shoot by Alexei Hay took a decidedly heterosexual twist. Slide show (some of it nsfw).

Writes Nancy Jo Sales in the cover story:

"Lambert's groupies on the Idols Live Tour follow him across the country, offering him clothes and books and jewelry—and they've tried to give him other things. 'There was one woman in Jersey who was actually gorgeous,' says Lambert. 'She had obviously had a couple of cocktails, and during an after–show meet–and–greet, she just slithered up next to me and started kissing my neck. I was cool with it. But then it started to get a little weird because she was, like, moaning. She gave me a note that said, 'I want to make out with you, here's my number,' and I was like, wow, this is crazy. But again, it's cool. Because yeah, I am gay, but I like kissing women sometimes. Women are pretty. It doesn't mean I'm necessarily sleeping with them. 'Of course, had I been the one drinking the cocktails,' he adds, 'I probably would have made out with her.' He says it wouldn't matter to his 24–year–old boyfriend, whom he won't discuss except to say that he's 'Cajun' and has 'swagger.' ('I like 'em smaller and younger,' Lambert says mischievously.) He smiles. 'I don't see how all this is any different than—let's take a modern sex symbol like Brad Pitt. How many of these women who fantasize about him actually get to sleep with him?' he asks. 'It's all fantasy—that's what entertainment is. I'm here to entertain you, and if my sexuality is apparent and you respond to it, and you're attracted to it, then great, I'm doing my job. It ain't happening anyway!'"

Watch the behind-the-scenes video, AFTER THE JUMP...

 

Tom Brady Lends His 'Molten Stare' to Details

From Details September '09 cover story:

"Few would know [how tough modeling is] better than the Patriots star: he of the molten stare in the Stetson ads, he who flirted last year with becoming the new face and bulge of Calvin Klein's underwear ad campaign (but who eventually declined), he who can be seen hobnobbing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala, that beehive of fashionistas, with Gisele on his arm. With his cleft-chinned, lantern-jawed, comic-book-hero face and dandyish flair for style, Brady is no stranger to the modeling life, to the tinsel of high fashion. Sure, Peyton Manning gets his picture snapped once in a while, but God forbid anyone ask him to flash his bedroom eyes. No, Tom Brady owns this particular overlap of football and fashion, of athletics and aesthetics (or co-owns it, anyway, with David Beckham). So we trust him. He knows."

More shots, AFTER THE JUMP...

GQ and Details to Get Own Websites

Conde Nast is dismantling Men.Style.com in October in favor of separate sites for its two major men's publications:

"The move marks a partial dismantling of Conde Nast's strategy of creating web-only brands to house magazine content, such as Style.com, Epicurious.com and Concierge.com, and the realization that in many cases the best brand for the web is the one that's been successful in print. The move comes in the midst of a terrible advertising climate and companywide budget cuts, and on the heels of the repositioning of one of its men's titles, Men's Vogue, as a twice-a-year supplement late last year. Indeed, Conde Nast Digital president Sarah Chubb said Conde Nast couldn't justify three men's fashion titles on the web, and it didn't really make sense to do so because lifestyle content from GQ was already the main traffic driver for Men.Style.com. Further, the view among Conde Nast execs is that a unified print-web brand will be an easier sell to brand advertisers."

Kanye West: 'That's So Gay' Should Be Used as a Compliment

Kanye West tells Details magazine that the phrase "that's so gay" should be made a compliment.

Says Kanye: "Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good. Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it's, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost . . . gay.'"

Adds Details: "West's friends and professional adjuncts, who quietly pass in and out of his loft throughout the day, start cracking up, and he leaves his chair for a bit of stand-up: 'Dude, that's so good it's almost gay!' 'Dude, you pay real attention to detail—that's almost, like, gay!' 'You had a whole conversation with that girl without bringing up sex? That was, like, gay!'"

Watch Details' interview with Kanye West, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Ryan Seacrest Could Potentially be a Heterosexual

Says Ryan Seacrest about a girlfriend he once had: "I completely fell into [a] relationship, and I didn’t want to. I remember having conversations like 'This is so weird for me, because I’m not supposed to like anyone until I’ve achieved what I want to achieve.'"

No discussion of the gay jibes he endures from the tongue of Simon Cowell, though there is plenty of talk about his potential female mates. It's revealed that the "husky" adolescent Seacrest once had a cute blond "surrender" after he persisted for days on a diet of grapefruit and oranges.

Also offered up is a quote about his potential heterosexuality from real-life gay Ellen DeGeneres: "I’d love to see him meet a nice girl and settle down."

But that won't be happening soon, according to the article: "Seacrest is in bed, at home in the Hollywood Hills, by eight o’clock almost every night. He sleeps spooning a BlackBerry, his dating life is in suspended animation."

Ryan Seacrest Knows What You Think of Him [details]

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Hayden Christensen Knows You'll Still Wonder if He's Gay

The Details article (accompanying the Steven Klein photos I posted yesterday) on Hayden Christensen is now online:

"And there are drawbacks [to fame], like people you don’t know starting to wonder whom you’re sleeping with—though Christensen’s been relatively lucky in this regard, mostly sidestepping invasive scrutiny. He’s been linked in the press, routinely and predictably, with whatever costar he’s currently filming with (Natalie Portman in Revenge of the Sith [he denies having dated her], Rachel Bilson in Jumpers), in the kinds of couplings that always carry a whiff of P.R. brimstone—and just as reliably dissolve shortly after opening weekend. He’s also, just as predictably, been the subject of speculation that he’s gay. He’s said on the record that he’s not. He’s also said he doesn’t mind people’s thinking he is. He knows they’ll talk either way."

Check AFTER THE JUMP for the behind-the-scenes video...